while the SO is dying a painful death (not going to sugar coat it), my questions whether the knowledge in there is already assimilated into the AI's knowledge database? If it is, it can be retrievable in the future.
A lot of the answers are factually useful and it would a massive loss if it ever just disappear into the ether.
HN has a funny was of bubbling up low value article such as this.
Jev is far from being a fallen software. It works and it works well. Just because no one is talking about it does not make it a failure.
We reached inverse hype: where the folks jaded by hype are so jaded that they start to hype the same low value content they normally deride... as long as it speaks counter to any hyped topic.
Ironically, that technique usually pans out since a lot of useless fads get hyped. But every once in a while it causes people to completely and utterly miss the point.
I call it “SchadenFraud”: reveling in and playing up every little negative thing that happens in the AI world to make it look like it’s all just hype and will come crashing down any moment now.
At one point the hype truly was overwhelming (maybe it only appears less so these days because a lot of it seems justified now) and needed some counterbalance, but this is not it. We need balanced expert perspectives grounded in evidence.
Instead we get get TFA and other similar content from the usual suspects (you know who they are) largely because they’re building their careers on very loudly telling people what they want to hear, which may not be what they need to hear.
This is not harmless, because it gives folks the hope that things have not irrevocably changed and will soon go back to normal after the bubble pops. Personally, I’d rather get a stark but realistic picture of what’s happening now so I can prepare better for the future.
I have also found that AI has accelerated my learning. Rather than spending time searching for the right material, it just presents the material and guides you as you work through the topics.
Yep. Another thing I do, is ask all sorts of weird questions about various things that pop into my mind, and after it explains a bunch of stuff to me, I ask it "write up a summary of all of that and put it in a file in $APPROPRIATE_GIT_REPO".
I do have it configured to use the Github MCP server and have given it access to 3 or 4 of my repos. Along with that, I put an AGENTS.md file in each repo and gave ChatGPT in general a custom instruction that says "at the beginning of each session, or when prompted by the user, consult the appropriate AGENTS.md file and follow the instructions found there."
I then keep various files in the various repos that catalog our discussions, decisions, speculations about future research directions, yadda, yadda, yadda. And I "incorporate by reference" by mentioning those files in the AGENTS.md. Setting all that up took some work, but it makes the AI much more reliable than trusting it to rely on its "memory".
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